Podcast | April 9, 2019
Listen in as Yaz & Olu talk about everything from the value of tech education for kids to cryptographic privacy protocols.
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Professor and Managing Director at Hardy Gallagher Associates
Sharyn is an accomplished educator and business executive with more than 20 years of experience building strong relationships and solving complex problems. Her favorite kind of work involves developing something new and improving decision-making, especially in harnessing technology to enhance learning, end-user productivity, and workflow. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Associate Research Director, Jobs for the Future
Dr. Sullivan is a community advocate, educator and researcher passionately committed to transformation towards a more just society. For 25 years, Dr. Sullivan has worked to build individual, organizational, and community capacity to be more civically engaged and empowered. She hold a Ph.D. in public policy from University of Massachusetts Boston and holds of Masters of Arts in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research.
Product Manager, Salesforce
Jared attended Boston College for his undergraduate studies, and Boston University for his graduate degree. He has worked in the software industry for over a decade. Most recently, he worked as a product manager for mobile applications at HeyWire for 6 years before being acquired by Salesforce. Since the acquisition, he has led product for various Messaging Platforms at Salesforce.
Area Health Education Center Project Coordinator at Georgetown University Medical Center
Alicia M. Bibbs, M.Ed, is the DC Area Health Education Center Project Coordinator at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to Georgetown, Alicia worked at Howard University as a Pre-Health Advisor. Alicia has experience supporting bio-behavioral and epidemiological research projects at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Alicia also served as an AmeriCorps member with Citizen Schools National Teaching Fellowship in New Mexico and Texas. Alicia holds a Master’s in Education degree in Curriculum, Instruction, & Education Leadership from Lesley University; along with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology from Clark Atlanta University. Alicia is passionate about education and healthcare equity in underserved communities in the United States.
Grants & Communications Consultant
Dawn loves working in the nonprofit sector to improve the lives of young people in her community. She has nearly 20 years of professional experience. Her fundraising experience has included private foundations ranging from the Lowell-specific Theodore Edson Parker Foundation to national funders like The Kresge Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has also managed both proposals and reporting for public funds at the city, state, and federal levels. Dawn also has experience managing branding, media relations, and social media workplans, in addition to working with development colleagues on annual appeals and events of all sizes.
President & CEO, Hunter + Co Communications
Jan is a PR Consultant and former radio journalist. She has proven expertise in designing and executing successful global media relations programs for top brands. She is a graduate of Boston College.
Group Product Manager, Enterprise Business Systems/ IT Operations, TripAdvisor
Freya is a strategic business leader with nonprofit and for-profit experience, focused on addressing operational challenges across finance, sales, HR, marketing, product management, engineering and IT. She is a graduate of Tufts University and Northwestern University. She also holds a certificate in nonprofit management from Boston University.
Senior Manager, Global Messaging, HubSpot
Marwa began her professional career in technical support at Bullhorn before joining the marketing team. From there, she wanted experience in the B2C space and worked on the launch of the email program for tjmaxx.com before launching back into the startup space and heading to BevSpot. From BevSpot, she joined HubSpot to oversee the email automation team. The team continued to grow to oversee all global communications across all marketing channels including email, bots, live chat, WhatsApp and more. She is a holds a BA in psychology from the University of Connecticut.
Senior Consulting Analyst, Accenture
Pierson is a graduate of the The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Operations, Information and Decisions; Social Impact and Responsibility. He currently works in Management Consulting at Accenture as the Senior Consulting Analyst.
